IUAV University of Venice is a university specializing in architecture, design, and related fields, with design study based in Venice. Its three-year bachelor's and two-year master's programs in Design of Products, Visual Communication and Interiors place product design alongside visual and interior design within an interdisciplinary structure.
The curriculum combines design laboratories with history, theory, criticism, technology, and socioeconomic study. Students may work with objects, systems, services, interfaces, multimedia, and living, working, exhibition, and retail spaces, while internships, workshops, seminars, and labs for modeling, prototyping, photography, video, and computing connect study to professional practice.